Scott E. Graves wrote:
> I was contemplating setting home setgid so all users would create files/dirs
> with the same gid in their respective home dir, for security reasons. I was
> rather unclear in my question. I understand the idea behind having /home
> setgid, but I was looking for any secur
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:58, Joey Hess wrote:
> Scott E. Graves wrote:
> > what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?
I was contemplating setting home setgid so all users would create files/dirs
with the same gid in their respective home dir, for security reasons. I was
rather un
Scott E. Graves wrote:
> what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?
None at all, really.
There are some small benefits to individual directories inside /home
being setgid; there are also known bad side effects, which is why
adduser no longer does that. See bug #64806 for more.
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Patrick Mauro wrote:
> >
> >what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?
>
> As I understand it, it means that any directories created underneath
> /home will have the same settings as home (groups, permissions, etc)
>
Any file (or directory) created under the
>
>what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?
As I understand it, it means that any directories created underneath /home will
have the same settings as home (groups, permissions, etc)
Patrick Mauro
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what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?
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